Mystery Lake

Divisional Plan

Professional Learning Funding provided by Manitoba Education - Please provide details below

1) To date, how have you used the money your division received for K-8 teachers' LwICT professional learning in 2008-09 and 2009-10?
Some schools have used their PD time to inservice staff. There is a LwICT support teacher's salary.

2) What professional learning is occurring now because of the extra funding that you previously not able to do?
The division has a LwICT Support Teacher for our six elementary schools. This person provides direct individual support to staff upon request, has attended staff meetings to discuss the continuum, attended the New Teacher Seminar to discuss the continuum, has mentored staff and students to model what LwICT can look like across the curriculum which has resulted in increased use of the lab.

3) Does your division have any strategies for ongoing professional learning (For example: Professional Learning Community - online, face-to-face, mentors, etc?)
There is a "go to" person (often the librarian) on school staffs for trouble shooting, sharing ideas, or set-up of mobile lab/Smartboard/projector. At this time it is unknown as to whether the LwICT Support Teacher's term will be extended. The LwICT Support Teacher researching topics for teachers to support their curriculums.


4) What successful strategies would you like to recommend to other divisions?

The sharing of information of what has worked and what hasn't. Having one person working in all the elementary schools ensures that ideas are being shared throughout the division and that teachers could make contact with colleagues in the other schools if they were interested in learning what was happening in other classrooms.

For more information, please contact.....

Report Card Samples

5) How often do you report on Literacy with ICT during the school year?
Once per year.

6) Which grades are reporting on Literacy with ICT?
K-8.
7) When does the reporting occur?
Spring.

8) What feedback have you received from parents regarding reporting of Literacy with ICT?
Very little.

9) In certain circumstances, a child may have more than one teacher. How would/do your teachers report on a child's literacy with ICT in this circumstance? Please discuss with your divisional team and record some possible strategies to address this issue.
The homeroom teacher completes the report and then the other teachers review to make changes where necessary after letting the homeroom teacher know that there is a discrepancy.

10) If there have been changes to your divisional statement of belief on reporting on LwICT, since last year, upload or insert the text below.


For more information, please contact..... Donna Johnston, Literacy with ICT Support Teacher, djohnston@mysterynet.mb.ca

Transition to Senior Years

11) Thoughts on Literacy with ICT transition to the Senior Years
Providing the same supports to the senior years teachers as the elementary teachers are receiving in order to help them understand what Literacy with ICT really means and what that can mean for them and their students.
12 )Ongoing support for K-8 teachers
Giving teachers the chance to discuss what they have done during the year with their students at the school year's end. This could be incorporated into the planning day in June.